Quotes by Michael Caine

About Michael Caine:

Sir Michael Caine is an English actor and author. Renowned for his distinctive working class cockney accent, Caine has appeared in over 115 films and is regarded as a British film icon.
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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

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There's quite a lot of bad stuff written about me. My wife even says a lot of bad stuff about me. But she is wonderful.

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If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

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I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

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I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart's 'The Caine Mutiny,' which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I ...

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Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

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The standing ovation threw me... to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.

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The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

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When you're a movie star and you're young, you are always playing someone who's a better fighter, a better lover, a better everything than you.

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The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all.

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My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

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My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.

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To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

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One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.

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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

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I try to make everyone around me feel comfortable.

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I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

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People say I've 'retained' my Cockney accent. I can do any accent, but I wanted other working-class boys to know that they could become actors.

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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.

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Author Bio

  • NameMichael Caine
  • DescriptionEnglish actor and author
  • AliasesMaurice Joseph Micklewhite
  • BornMarch 14, 1933
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Writer; Autobiographer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Supporting Actor; Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Donostia Award